Deadline: 28 October 2018
The Department of Health and Human Services, Centres for Disease Control is seeking applications for its grant program entitled “Improving Laboratory Capacity and Quality in the Scale-up of HIV Diagnosis, Care, Treatment, and Monitoring in Malawi under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).”
The purpose of this NOFO is to strengthen the laboratory capacity and quality to achieve measurable outcomes that directly contribute to the achievement and maintenance of HIV epidemic control in Malawi.
Priorities for this NOFO are for over 95% of patients to have a VL/EID taken and acted upon; use of QA/QI processes to monitor performance; build the TB/HIV laboratory capacity improve the TB/HIV diagnostic; ensure 90% of molecular laboratories reach ISO laboratory accreditation; build laboratory capacity for HIV comorbidities including NCDs; and support laboratory capacity in surveillance.
Program Outcomes
- Reduce total turnaround time (TAT) for EID and VL
- Increase and maintain proportion of PLHIV with known VL and HIV exposed infants with a known status
- Increase the proportion of PLHIV with a suppressed VL and improve outcomes for exposed or HIV-positive infants
- Increase use of HIV rapid test CQI in all HIV rapid testing sites
- Decrease discordant and inaccurate HIV test results
- Increase number of samples tested for TB and TB drug resistance
- Improve detection of TB and drug-resistant TB
- Increased proportion of laboratories with passing score in EQA
- Improve scores for laboratories enrolled in SLMTA and SLIPTA
- Increased number of accredited laboratories
Strategies and Activities
- Expand access to quality HIV diagnostic and treatment monitoring services
- Build TB laboratory diagnostics capacity
- Support molecular laboratories to achieve accreditation.
Funding Information
The Award Ceiling of this NOFO is 10,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Government Organizations:
- Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States)
- Non-government Organizations:
- Alaska Native health corporations
- Tribal epidemiology centers
- Urban Indian health organizations
- Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
- Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
- Research institutions (that will perform activities deemed as non-research)
- Colleges and Universities
- Community-based organizations
- Faith-based organizations
- For-profit organizations (other than small business)
- Hospitals
- Small, minority, and women-owned businesses
- All Other
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit grants.gov.